Combined mop and brush holder.



E. 0. LOEBBR. COMBINED MOP AND BRUSH HOLDER. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 6,1910.

Patented Oct. 11, 1910.

BNVENTOR EDGAR O. Lassen BY ATTYS.

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EDGAR O. LOEBER, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE HANDY MANUFACTURINGCOMPANY, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, A CORPORATION.

COMBINED MOP AND BRUSH HOLDER.

Application filed June 6, 1910.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 11, 1910.

Serial No. 565,423.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDGAR O. LOEBER, citizen of the United States,residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Mop and BrushHolder, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a combined mop and brush holder for scrubbingpurposes, and the invention consists in a holder constructed and adaptedto operate substantially as shown and described and particularly pointedout in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a sectional elevation of theholder, and shown in full lines as gripping a mop cloth and in dottedlines gripping a brush. Fig. 2 is a sectional plan. view of a part ofthe holder as hereinafter described. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the fixedor socket member of the holder, and Fig. 4 is an elevation of theactuating screw.

The invention as thus shown comprises a head or socket member A having ahandle socket 2 and a handle H mounted therein and provided with astraight upper jaw 3 having a concave channel 4 lengthwise on its underside. Arms 5 connect said jaw with the extremity of the socket portionof the head and between these arms and the handle socket a new andoriginal construction is provided which materially improves the de vice,as will now appear. Thus the said member A has a longitudinal slot a inwhat may be termed its shank Z) adapted to receive the head 6 of lowerpivoted jaw member 13 and the rotatable actuating or operating screw D.In so far as said head 6 is concerned, it has flat sides adapted toworkfreely but closely within the fiat sides of said slot at and atransverse pivot pin 9 serves as a pivot for said head. Furthermore thesaid head is rounded and concaved in cross section on its inner edge 7and provided with transverse teeth in said rounded concaved portion, andthe operating screw D is located to hold constant and close operatingconnection with said teeth. Now in order that the said screw shall beheld in such operating relation and be cast as a complete operatingmember requiring no riveting or other work thereon to apply itpractically and operatively in the holder I cast the said slot a with anextension in its inner portion of a depth sufficient to receive saidscrew in addition to said head 6 of the lower jaw and to hold the screwsecurely in operating relations therewith. To these ends the inner endof said slot, which opens directly into the handle socket in thisinstance has rounded upper and lower edges 0 and d respectively in thewall of said slot, the rounded edge or end 0 in the top wall conformingin size to the top 9 of the otherwise threaded stem of screw I), and therelatively sm ler rounded edge or end (Z beneath conforming to thereduced or smaller neck It at the lower end of said screw. As to thisend it is further provided with a bearing shulder n next above neck Itadapted to rest and bear down upon the rounded edge d and a button no atits extremity engaged outside against said edge and serving to confinethe screw and prevent its possible withdrawal. Fun thermore a slightbead 0 is formed about the top of rounded edge 0.

Now, in assembling the parts the screw D is first placed in workingposition in slot (6 and seated as to walls or ends 0 and (Z as shown anddescribed, slot at being large enough to permit the insertion of saidscrew in or through the portion occupied by jaw head 6. Then the jaw Bwith its head 6 is placed in working position in relation to screw D inslot a and pivot pin 9 inserted and riveted in place and the assemblingof the parts is completed. In this connection the importance of longopen slot 2 adapted to receive both screw D and head 6 will not beoverlooked, because thereby all special fitting of the screw and thelabor of riveting the same is omitted and the screw can be cast completewith button at thereon beneath or outside wall 0 while shoulder itwithin takes the down bearing. In other words this extremity of thescrew serves to confine it axially both up and down, while head 6 lockedin place by pivot pin 9 against the screw confines it in that direction.Again, the handle socket is specially constructed to hold the handle Hfirmly in place in case of shrinkage or looseness. To this end saidsocket is provided with ribs 15 longitudinally which gradually deepen inwedge shape from the outer to the inner end of the socket. The handle isdriven in over or upon these ribs and they look the handle firmly inposition.

Another structural and practical feature is cavity 16 cast in the bottomor under side of neck 17 which connects arms 18 of the lower jaw withthe head 6 thereof or of the complete member B. The said jaws areconstructed to obtain the greatest reach possible within the limits oftheir construction as well as to come close together when used as a mop.Vhen Wide open the cavity 16 makes room for button m and thus the samesize of parts otherwise provides for a wider opening than would bepossible without said cavity.

The thread or worm 12 on said screw D engages the teeth 8 on the lowerjaw and operates member B toward and from member 3 with pin 9 as thepivot. The reach of said member B is indicated by dotted lines, Fig. 1.Thus, for engaging a brush for scrubbing the floor or the like, shown indotted lines, the jaw is swung back to the dotted position, butforengaging a mop cloth or something that is small it is swung to anapproximately closed position, full lines, Fig. 1. It will be seen thata large range of adjustment is provided by this construction, and that abrush or a mop cloth can be gripped with equal convenience.

It will be particularly observed that the arms 5 which carry the upperor fixed jaw are curved downwardly in respect to the handle socket so asto bring said jaw and the engaging portion of the pivoted jaw whollybeneath the axis of said handle and socket, and that the said pivotedjaw is adapted to swing back beyond its own pivot relatively as far asit swings forward from the same and behind the line of the screw Dbeneath the handle socket so that when a brush is gripped between thesaid jaws, as shown in dotted lines, Fig. 1, it will occupy a positionin respect to the handle which enables the user to hold the handle atthe most convenient inclined position to do the work and so that thewhole working surface of the brush will come flat upon the floor and noundue tilting of the handle is necessary. Or in case a mop cloth is usedthe jaws are brought together in such way that the lower jaw will notscrape on the floor and the cloth will come down on the floor and liftthe jaw B above the same. This could not be if the parts were notbrought under the cloth and removed from the floor by the constructionshown.

lVhat I claim is:

l. A mop holder having a fixed upper member provided with a handlesocket and a pivoted lower member and meeting jaws on said members, saidfixed member having a vertical longitudinal slot with a rounded innerextremity, a controlling screw for the lower aw operatively sealed insaid rounded extremity and said lower member having a head pivoted insaid slot andv provided with transverse teeth engaging said screw, saidscrew being locked against removal in the said rounded inner extremityof said slot.

2. A mop holder having a handle supported jaw member with a verticalslot lengthwise in its shank and the inner end of said slot rounded at cand (Z respectively top and bottom, a controlling screw resting againstsaid rounded portions and engaging said lower portion (Z at top andbottom, thereby confining said screw against lengthwise movement and alower jaw member pivoted in said slot and having a toothed head engagingsaid screw.

In testimony whereof I alfix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EDGAR O. LOEBER. lVitnesses F. C. MUssUN, E. M. F ISHER.

